Way Down in the Rust Bucket

The album was recorded on November 13, 1990 at The Catalyst in Santa Cruz, California, where the band was warming up for their upcoming Ragged Glory tour. The show consisted of three sets and an encore, featuring most of the recently released Ragged Glory as well as older fan favorites and deeper cuts. Guitarist Poncho Sampedro remembers the show fondly in a March 2021 interview for Rolling Stone: {{Blockquote|"Let me go on record as saying that I think this Way Down in the Rust Bucket is the best Crazy Horse record we ever recorded. I love it! I love this record. Neil plays great, unbelievably great. He's just electrified. "Country Home" sounds like a country tune I never heard in my life. He just takes it to all kinds of different levels. He nails "Cortez." He nails "Danger Bird" and "Over and Over." He's just playing so good and the band played really good. We'd go onstage and we played "T-Bone". We'd played that song at a birthday party for one of Pegi's friends and then we played it there. We never played it too many other places. It was just fun. We played "Homegrown," and at the end, people were throwing weed on the stage since it's a big weed-growing community. We were having fun. It was all about the beginning of a new era. We were becoming alive. I just don't see it as a warm-up. It doesn't hit me like that. We played "Cortez" and it sounds so beautiful. When I hear Neil play it with other people, it just doesn't sound the same to me, ever."Greene, Andy. 2021. "Neil Young and Crazy Horse's Frank 'Poncho' Sampedro on New Live LP, Why He Left the Band". Rolling Stone. March 2, 2021. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/frank-poncho-sampedro-interview-neil-young-crazy-horse-1134522/.}}

Due to a temporary power loss, the multitrack recording of "Cowgirl in the Sand" was damaged; it was decided to remove the song from the CD and LP running order (which also allowed the release format to be limited to two CDs/four LPs). "Cowgirl in the Sand" appears only on the DVD version, with dropout sections augmented by lower-fidelity FOH mix. {{cite web |title=Way Down In The Rust Bucket |url=https://neilyoungarchives.com/news/3/article?id=Hanlon-Way-Down-In-The-Rust-Bucket |website=Neil Young Archives |access-date=16 January 2021}}

Young announced the release on his site on January 1, 2020 with the intention to release it that year along with Greendale Live, which was later retitled Return to Greendale, a 2003 rock opera that also features Crazy Horse. This album was initially scheduled to come out on October 16, 2020 before being postponed to January 15, 2021 and later February 26. Young has previously shown all the concert video footage of this show as part of the Movietone section of his Archives website.

{{Album ratings

|MC=85/100{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/way-down-in-the-rust-bucket-live/neil-young-crazy-horse|title=Metacritic Review|publisher=Metacritic|accessdate=March 2, 2021}}

|rev1=AllMusic

|rev1score={{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/way-down-in-the-rust-bucket-mw0003472399|title=AllMusic Review|publisher=AllMusic|last=Deming|first=Mark|accessdate=March 2, 2021}}

| rev2 = And It Don't Stop

| rev2Score = A−{{cite web|last=Christgau|first=Robert|date=April 7, 2021|url=https://robertchristgau.substack.com/p/consumer-guide-april-2021|title=Consumer Guide: April, 2021|work=And It Don't Stop|publisher=Substack|accessdate=April 17, 2021|url-access=subscription}}

|rev3=Clash

|rev3score=9/10{{cite web|url=https://www.clashmusic.com/reviews/neil-young-down-in-the-rust-bucket|title=Clash Magazine Review|work=Clash|last=Roseblade|first=Nick|date=February 25, 2021|accessdate=March 2, 2021}}

|rev4=Rolling Stone

|rev4score={{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/neil-young-way-down-in-the-rust-bucket-1132578/|title='Way Down in the Rust Bucket' Is the Sound of Neil Young and Crazy Horse Getting Reinvigorated for the Nineties|magazine=Rolling Stone|last=Browne|first=David|date=February 25, 2021|accessdate=March 2, 2021}}

|rev5 = Tom Hull – on the Web

|rev5Score = B+ ({{Rating-Christgau|hm2}}){{cite web|last=Hull|first=Tom|authorlink=Tom Hull (critic)|date=March 29, 2021|url=https://tomhull.com/ocston/blog/archives/2933-Music-Week.html|title=Music Week|website=Tom Hull – on the Web|accessdate=April 17, 2021}}

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Way Down in the Rust Bucket was met with acclaim from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 85 based on 7 reviews.

All songs written by Neil Young except as noted.

{{Track listing

| headline = Disc one

| total_length =

| title1 = Country Home

| length1 = 9:13

| title2 = Surfer Joe and Moe the Sleaze

| writer2 = Neil Young, Frank "Poncho" Sampedro

| length2 = 5:40

| title3 = Love to Burn

| length3 = 13:54

| title4 = Days That Used to Be

| length4 = 4:56

| title5 = Bite the Bullet

| length5 = 3:58

| title6 = Cinnamon Girl

| length6 = 4:04

| title7 = Farmer John

| writer7 = Don Harris, Dewey Terry

| length7 = 6:01

| title8 = Over and Over

| length8 = 10:20

| title9 = Danger Bird

| length9 = 10:26

| title10 = Don’t Cry No Tears

| length10 = 4:22

| title11 = Sedan Delivery

| length11 = 5:44

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Disc two

| total_length =

| title1 = Roll Another Number (For the Road)

| length1 = 4:45

| title2 = Fuckin’ Up

| writer2 = Neil Young, Frank "Poncho" Sampedro

| length2 = 5:12

| title3 = T-Bone

| length3 = 6:44

| title4 = Homegrown

| length4 = 4:46

| title5 = Mansion on the Hill

| length5 = 5:58

| title6 = Like a Hurricane

| length6 = 12:56

| title7 = Love and Only Love

| length7 = 13:16

| title8 = Cortez the Killer

| length8 = 11:24

}}

{{div col}}

• "Country Home"
• "Surfer Joe and Moe the Sleaze"
• "Love to Burn"
• "Days That Used to Be"
• "Bite the Bullet"
• "Cinnamon Girl"
• "Farmer John"
• "Cowgirl in the Sand"
• "Over and Over"
• "Danger Bird"
• "Don't Cry No Tears"
• "Sedan Delivery"
• "Roll Another Number (For the Road)"
• "Fuckin' Up"
• "T-Bone"
• "Homegrown"
• "Mansion on the Hill"
• "Like a Hurricane"
• "Love and Only Love"
• "Cortez the Killer"

{{div col end}}

;Neil Young and Crazy Horse

• Neil Young{{nbsp}}– vocals, guitar
• Ralph Molina{{nbsp}}– drums, vocals
• Frank Sampedro{{nbsp}}– guitar, Stringman, vocals
• Billy Talbot{{nbsp}}– bass guitar, vocals

Engineering and production

• Neil Young, David Briggs{{nbsp}}– production
• John Hanlon{{nbsp}}– recording, mixing
• Jenice Heo{{nbsp}}– art direction & design
• Frank Gironda{{nbsp}}– direction

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{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/neil-young-2020-archival-release-greendale-live-932829/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=September 18, 2020 |date=January 2, 2020 |last=Blisten |first=Jon |lang=en-US |title=Neil Young Details 2020 Archival Releases

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{{Cite web |url=https://consequence.net/2020/03/neil-young-release-dates-archival-projects/ |title=Neil Young Shares Release Dates for Five Archival Projects |publisher=Consequence of Sound |date=March 10, 2020 |access-date=September 18, 2020 |lang=en-US}}

{{Cite web |url=https://www.stereogum.com/2094708/neil-young-announces-three-archival-releases/news/ |last=Helman |first=Peter |publisher=Stereogum |date=August 13, 2020 |access-date=September 18, 2020 |lang=en-US |title=Neil Young Announces Three Archival Releases}}

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• [http://neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org/2019/11/update-neil-young-crazy-horses-way-down.html Review of the show from Neil Young News]

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